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I think the dream here would be to be able to compose an

@andy_matuschak

Orbit-style SRS prompt as a block right within a CMS (

@Ghost

@JohnONolan

omg pretty please?!), and have that be shareable to Anki, Roam,

@rem_note

, wherever the user wants Ex I write everything in RemNote/

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· Mar 2

Thank you to folks like @andy_matuschak , @michael_nielsen @MoritzW42 @gwern for being pioneers on this stuff. Someday soon, this sort of thing will be able to be serenely woven into "serious" (we don't want to say...academic) writing online. The benefits are so clear.

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Tim Wainwright

@Tim_Wainwright

Mar 2

but I'm not sure about just embedding a public Rem onto a Ghost post and leaving it there - mostly because I don't know how it would hurt our SEO, but I assume a lot (need to research this tho). RemNote et al are designed to be PKMs first.

@andy_matuschak

's Orbit has publishers

Tim Wainwright

@Tim_Wainwright

Mar 2

in mind #1 (🥂), but it's too early for me adopt at scale. In either case, though, the SPC has to go all-in with a single tech partner in order to make content in the "mnemonic medium" notes.andymatuschak.org/Mnemonic_medium This isn't ideal for anyone, as while it's still anyone's game to be/

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the market leader in "SRS for publishers", it's probably too late for *anyone* to be king of the hill in the PKM/SRS space. So why not decouple? We're far past the limits of my tech literacy here, so hoping

can help:)

You're absolutely right about this problem. I think a good solution will be malleable, treat this stuff as portable structured data. I've built Orbit so that it can become as a conduit to other contexts (Anki, RemNote, etc), but still needs glue.

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

Mar 3

A somewhat deeper problem is that I don't feel sufficiently confident that we've settled on durable primitives. This stuff's all still in an experimental place, at least in my mind.

Tim Wainwright

@Tim_Wainwright

Mar 3

Thanks for the kind engagement as always, hoping the afternoon timestamp means your morning was full of writing ;) Would you say a bit more to what the term "durable primitives" means to you? Im not familiar w term. (Or links if you've written on it!)

Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak

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@Tim_Wainwright

Ah, by that I just mean some definition which satisfyingly unifies, e.g. mnemonic medium prompts, nodes in RemNote, Anki notes, and other related concepts. You need to define some sufficiently good "lowest-common denominator" before you can make protocols.

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Ah got it. Reminds me of the journey of the (now seemingly stalled) "Argument Web". Not sure if there's a way to overcome the subjectivity of defining a desirable 🧠-unit from a pedagogical perspective, but technically.."Texts to play peekaboo with"?

link.springer.com

The Argument Web: an Online Ecosystem of Tools, Systems and Services for Argumentation

Philosophy & Technology - The Argument Web is maturing as both a platform built upon a synthesis of many contemporary theories of argumentation in philosophy and also as an ecosystem in which...

Tim Wainwright

@Tim_Wainwright

Mar 3

Now that I have little kids I can't read a popup book without thinking about this stuff. Also reminds of Brian Train's consim work - really interesting stuff here on the history of "newspaper games" and "games as journalism"

brtrain.wordpress.com

Presentations

Here are links to scripts and slide decks for presentations I have made to various groups and classes in the past, most recent first: “The Uses of Simple Games”: brief talk to faculty a…